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🔥WILD: You can now watch every Bitcoin payment get delivered like tiny letters, in real time. This website turns the live Bitcoin network into a working post office, with a mail truck leaving every 10 minutes when a block is mined. Over 83,000 letters are in line right now.

🗓Key Events This Week: - 🇺🇸The White House is set to host a major crypto meeting Wednesday, with Trump, the SEC and CFTC chairs, and executives from Coinbase, Ripple and Kalshi expected. - FOMC minutes land Wednesday, with markets pricing less than a 40% chance of a September hike. - 🇯🇵 Japan reports GDP Monday and CPI Friday, the two key tests before a BOJ hike that Reuters reports could come as soon as September. Monday Aug 17 - Japan Q2 GDP - US Treasury flows data, showing whether Japan cut its massive Treasury holdings again in June Tuesday Aug 18 - US Housing Starts and Industrial Production Wednesday Aug 19 - FOMC Minutes - White House crypto meeting - UK CPI Thursday Aug 20 - CFTC's first Innovation Advisory Committee meeting on crypto and prediction markets - Philadelphia Fed Index Friday Aug 21 - Japan CPI - US Flash PMIs

🔥THROWBACK: 17 YEARS of Bitcoin in 10 seconds. How does 2026 end?

🔥JUST IN: Tether holds 150 TONS of gold and more than 100,000 Bitcoin, per CEO Paolo Ardoino. Ardoino says KPMG's audit meant physically checking every single gold bar. "You have just to be good at lifting and have good muscles."

🚨HUGE: Nearly 900 Texas locals petitioned against Elon Musk's $16.8 BILLION chip factory, set to be 50 TIMES the size of the Pentagon. One resident accused Grimes County of handing the world's richest man "a Black Friday deal" on their resources, per Reuters. Musk says Terafab will out produce today's entire global chip supply, powering millions of robots and data centers in SPACE.

🚨WILD: The World Gold Council's CEO says that Bitcoin is going to ZERO. "My personal opinion on Bitcoin is that it's going to go to zero." Thoughts?

🇺🇸JUST IN: Franklin Crypto's head says the industry will be "just fine" even if the CLARITY Act never passes. Chris Perkins says the SEC and CFTC are already creating "policy and precedent every single day."

🎥WATCH: Apple's CEO won't say when the iPhone will be made in America. Asked directly, Cook points to Kentucky glass and Arizona chips instead, never answering the question, with most Apple devices still made in Asia.

⚡️LATEST: Tesla short sellers are up $9 BILLION this year, two years after Musk warned they would be "obliterated," even Bill Gates.

🚨JUST IN: JPMorgan had cut Polymarket's bank accounts in October, but still wants a role in its potential $20 BILLION IPO. The bank had previously told Polymarket to find a new lender over regulatory concerns, and is now angling to underwrite the company's listing as it seeks $1 BILLION in new funding. Polymarket says JPMorgan still handles its customer fund flows, calling the relationship close and active across multiple entities.

JUST IN: Binance founder CZ says millionaires will soon be unable to afford one full Bitcoin.

‼️ ALERT: China is closing in on offshore wealth held by wealthy Chinese families, training tax officers and drafting new rules for taxing offshore trusts. Consultations are expected within weeks, with public guidance likely to follow.